Stories from Sunday, September 5, 1993

JACKSON -- Alvin Bock of 425 W. Madison, Jackson, died Saturday evening while attending the St. Joseph picnic in Perry County. He was 83. Arrangements are incomplete at McComb's Funeral Home.

Missouri State Sen. Peter Kinder will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Southeast Missouri State University College Republicans Thursday. The 7:30 p.m. meeting will be held in the University Room of the University Center. Additional information is available by contacting Nathan Cooper, 339-3816, or Christy Stovall, 334-7721...

COMMERCE -- Mud blankets the pavement and yards. The asphalt streets are crumbling in places. But with the Mississippi River floodwaters receding, life is returning to normal in the small Scott County town. Some residents who had fled the floodwaters have returned home. "They are coming back and cleaning up," said Ann Huck, the town's mayor...

The stars will come out a little later than usual for this year's Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon to benefit Muscular Dystrophy Association, scheduled to begin on KFVS-12 at 9 a.m. Monday. The national telethon starts broadcasting Sunday night and continues for 21 hours...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- The University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service plans a Fun Fest for Kids Saturday at the Assembly of Good Church in Olive Branch. The event will be held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Fun Fest will include clowns, wagon rides, puppets, crafts and other activities. Any child in the flood-affected area age 12 and under is welcome...

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Shawnee Community School District 84 will open for classes Tuesday. The start of classes for the district, which encompasses part of three Southern Illinois counties Union, Alexander and Jackson has been delayed by the flood. The district includes elementary schools in McClure and Grand Tower, and a junior/senior high school south of Wolf Lake...

The Rev. William H. Marshall, pastor of the Chaffee Assembly of God Church and overseer of the Bethesda Fellowship in Cape Girardeau, recently returned from a ministry crusade in St. Petersburg, Russia. Marshall was accompanied on the trip by Paul and Jan Crouch, hosts of Trinity Broadcasting Network. While in Russia, a new Christian television network was dedicated...

Governor Mel Carnahan named the Southeast Missouri University Foundation the new agent for the Missouri Department of Revenue fee offices in Cape Girardeau and Jackson. It replaces the chambers of commerce in Jackson and Cape Girardeau, operators of the offices the last dozen years...

Governor Mel Carnahan's decision to remove Cape Girardeau County's two license fee offices from control of the Jackson and Cape chambers of commerce marks the end of a 12-year era in local history. A word is in order about how that era began. In November, 1980, private citizen Kit Bond avenged his upset loss of four years earlier by defeating Gov. ...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Jody Burton of Scott City, Missouri Delta Medical Center, 12:35 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, 1993. Name, Tucker Jarrett-Lee. Weight, 8 pounds 1 ounce. Second son. Mrs. Burton is the former Karry Ford, daughter of Deb Ford of Whitewater, and Jim Ford of St. ...

MATTHEWS -- Funeral service for Alice Marjorie Stucker, Matthews Route 1, was held Saturday at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. Robert Cates officiated, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park. Stucker, 64, died Thursday, Sept. 2, 1993, at Sells Rest Home...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Nadine L. Hurt of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Marvin Butrum will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Hurt, 85, died Friday, Sept. 3, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

WHITEWATER -- Funeral service for Edna Mavers of Whitewater will be held at 2 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Rodger West will officiate, with burial in Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery at Gordonville. Friends may call at the funeral home after 8:30 a.m...

Funeral service for Willard F. Stager Sr. of Houston, Texas, was held Aug. 10 at Davis Funeral Home in Rosenberg, Texas. David Mitchell officiated, with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park in Rosenberg. Stager, 75, died Sunday, Aug. 8, 1993, at West Houston Medical Center...

ADVANCE -- Robie Edward Nothdurft, 89, of Advance, died Saturday, Sept. 4, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 9, 1903, at Delta, son of Edward Daniel Nothdurft and Elmira Lape Nothdurft. He married Mary Helen Dunning on July 25, 1929. She preceded him in death on June 23, 1993...

Lou Washburn Myers, 101, died Saturday, Sept. 4, 1993, at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born Aug. 18, 1892, at Oak Ridge, daughter of George Penny and Julia Johnson Penny. She married John Washburn. He preceded her in death. She then married Cleve Myers. He preceded her in death...

While the high water has passed to the south, the repair of levees damaged in flooding along the upper Mississippi River has just begun. The flood broke through or topped more than two-thirds of the 1,576 levees along the Missouri and upper Mississippi River basins, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in levee damage...

After working 36 years for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bill Busch is going to the dogs. Busch retired Friday as resident engineer of the Corps of Engineer's Lower Mississippi River Valley Resident Office, located in the Cape Girardeau Federal Building...

Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan said Friday he will call a special session of the General Assembly, in conjunction with the annual veto session, to deal with legislation related to flood recovery. Area legislators, who were anticipating the special session call for weeks, were somewhat surprised and quite pleased that the governor's plans do not include a hike in taxes...

Gov. Mel Carnahan's decision to award the Cape Girardeau and Jackson license fee offices to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation has prompted concern on the part of some members of the foundation's board of directors. The foundation's 45-member board, including its executive committee, will convene at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Show Me Center to discuss the issue...

The "Flood of 1993" is subsiding, but the seep water isn't. The Illinois Department of Transportation won one battle with seep water Friday but is still fighting another along a stretch of highway between East Cape Girardeau and Gale. A Thursday night storm dumped more than four inches of new water in the area...

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson said Friday he is undecided whether to support the controversial North American Free Trade Agreement, but said he planned to focus on the issue over the next few weeks. "I believe before Congress adjourns this fall we will come to grips with NAFTA, but we have not gotten there yet," said Emerson in remarks to the Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee...

The Southeast Missouri University Foundation has been a money maker for the school, garnering cash gifts and property totaling more than $4.46 million in the last fiscal year alone. Of that total, $2.6 million was in cash gifts the most ever since establishment of the foundation a decade ago...

The Southeast Missourian's "Flood of 1993" commemorative section will be finding homes in Florida, Michigan, New York and California and several states in between. Brisk sales have been reported for the special 26-page section that appeared in the Missourian Friday...

Up to 16,600 acres of land in New Madrid County are part of discussions that may lead to establishment of a federal wildlife refuge in Southeast Missouri. The project manager for the New Madrid Refuge will be in Cape Girardeau Sept. 13 to discuss it...

Gwen N. Winningham remembers the golden age of drive-in theaters with personal fondness. For nearly 20 years, she owned the Jackson Park View Drive In theater. The Jackson theater was one of a handful in the area that treated moviegoers to a double feature seen on a big screen and heard through crackling speakers. It was the golden age of movie-going, Winningham says...

Dutifully I turned the pages of the calendars on the first day of September. I'm always anxious to see what the new picture will be on my favorite calendars, which are Travelers Insurance Company's to which local agencies add their own imprint but which I simply call the Currier and Ives calendar and St. Louis artist Mary Engelbreit's calendar...

Successful composting can be made easy. Backyard composting takes advantage of the natural cycle of plants -- living, dying and then decomposing to pass their vitality to new generations of plants. The end result is compost. For the past several years much has been written about compost for it dramatically improves the soil for the next generation of plants. ...

Five Cape Girardeau National Education Association members and two members of the Sikeston NEA were among 400 Missouri National Education Association leaders who attended the association's 21st annual leadership conference Aug. 4-6. The conference was held at the University of Missouri-Columbia and was organized into "schools." Teachers, counselors, school nurses and other educational employees in attendance brushed up on leadership skills and learned new ways to work effectively in their local communities and associations.. ...

The Young America 4-H Club of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a Building Our American Communities Grant from the Missouri Department of Agriculture, Market Development Division. The $500 grant was used at Nell Holcomb School to build lab areas for an outdoor classroom, a butterfly garden, a sundial, planting a wildlife area...

The Salvation Army has received 300 pairs of boots and two high pressure sprayers and several wet vacs to aid flood victims in the clean-up effort. The boots and sprayers came through the Samaritan's Purse, an organization headed by Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham. The wet vacs were donated by Telephone Pioneers...

"Apple Festival" is the theme for the Sept. 13 luncheon meeting sponsored by Christian Women's Club of Cape Girardeau County. The event is at noon at Holiday Inn. The program will include soloist Elaine Stone, and fashion show by Casual Corner. Anita Gamble will speak on "`Apple'-cations for Life."...

The Friends of Cape Girardeau Public Library will hold their annual book sale Sept. 10-12 at the library. Donations of books for the sale may be brought to the library at 711 N. Clark. The money raised at the sale will be used to support services and buy materials for the library...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Earl W. Kirchhoff to E. Charles and Carolyn A. Geittmann; Daniel J. and Brenda Carole Yoder to Robert E. McCool and Robert J. Grable; Herman and Dianne Uelsmann to Karen A. Staat...

Top-ranking Missouri high school students who graduated this year have been chosen to receive Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarships to attend the college or university of their choice. The $1,500 scholarships are awarded in each of Missouri's nine congressional districts. A total of 127 awards are given...

Three youths from Cape Girardeau County have completed summer internships on Capitol Hill with U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson. Emerson said they worked on a variety of projects in the Eighth District Congressman's Washington D.C. office. Intern John Cozean, a May graduate of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., with a degree in speech-communication, is also an alumnus of Cape Girardeau High School. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Cozean of Cape Girardeau;...

SCOTT CITY -- Nicole Wadlington, 18, of Scott City was second runner up and winner of the speech trophy at the Missouri Miss T.E.E.N. Pageant held in Springfield in July. She competed against 39 contestants from across the state. Participants were judged in five areas, scholarship, volunteer activities, personal interviews, speech or talent and formal presentation...

SCOTT CITY -- A teacher at St. Joseph School in Scott City and her students won in the NASA and National Science Teachers Association Space Science Student Involvement Program. Teacher Rhonda Dunham encouraged her students to participate. Students Andrew Blattel, Terry Enderle and Brandon Little were named second place state winners in the elementary division of the future aircraft/spacecraft design competition. ...

Stephanie E. Frisbie received her degree of Doctor of Medicine at the annual commencement exercises of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. She will specialize in family practice after completing her residency at Truman East Hospital in Independence under the direction of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine...

Christina Brumbaugh, 15, a junior at Jackson High School was named Miss Teen Missouri American at the annual state pageant held in July in Kansas City. She will represent Missouri at the National Miss American Pageant Nov. 24-28 in Tampa, Fla. Brumbaugh is the reigning Miss Riverfest...

Darron Jansen of Oran and Andrew French of Painton have been awarded a University of Missouri-Columbia College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources scholarship for the 1993-94 academic year. Jansen and French received a College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources scholarship from the Spiese Fund...